Description:The Next Decade Of Fantasy: Volume 1 is the first installment in the follow-up series to the best-selling stock art product, A Decade of Fantasy by Joe J. Calkins. This, like subsequent products contains 20 original stock art images. These images were previously released as single image products. Please review this product carefully to ensure... [click here for more]

Issue three of Worlds Without Master, an adventure fiction and gaming ezine featuring sword & sorcery short fiction and games from Epidiah Ravachol and many others.
In this issue:
"A Slaying in Smoke," a story of cults and fashion, by Epidiah Ravachol.
"In Taruve: the Merchant Train," another tale of Jakko Orange and his "niece" Tam-tam by D. Vincent... [click here for more]

FICTION
This is the first, and hopefully not last, work of fiction set in the Keranak Kingdoms, our primary setting for the BareBones Fantasy role-playing game. We hope you enjoy it, please leave Eric some feedback in the reviews section below!
Excerpt
The tremendous stone door did something that it hadn’t done in a very long time. It moved. There was an accompanying... [click here for more]

Nothing makes your imagination catch fire like a dragon!
And now you can breathe fire with the best of them as you create dragons and other mythical beasts that will awe, delight, and disturb. More than 30 lessons break down each creature into simple color-coded steps, from basic shapes, to details including claws and wings, to spectacular finished dragons and beasts.
All you need is a pencil,... [click here for more]

Alice Pleasance has just killed a man.Later, while suffering a heroin overdose, Alice visits a nightmare world of playing card royalty and violent tea parties. Worse, Alice discovers that her broken mind has dragged something out of her delusions and into her waking life. Something evil.Trapped in a psychiatric ward while dealing with... [click here for more]

Issue two of Worlds Without Master, an adventure fiction and gaming ezine featuring sword & sorcery short fiction and games from Epidiah Ravachol and many others.
In this issue:
"One Winter's Due," a story about vengeance, family and crossed oaths, by Epidiah Ravachol.
"Historia Imperio--Part 1," the beginning of the history of Keith Senkowski's Conspiracy... [click here for more]

Kendik Dezelek is a young Swordmaster. He's tall, strong, and well-trained. But when he leaves his home village on the road to adventure, he soon finds that those things will only get you so far. In the land between the Tylon Mountains and the Serpent River, friend and foe are not always as they appear.
In a world still recovering from the Scourge, when Horrors ravaged the land of Barsaive, Kendik... [click here for more]

You will experience immediate success by starting with extremely easy, basic anatomy that most fantasy characters share (simple shapes, easy views, easy to copy) then be able to move on to more interesting and complex characters that go past initial pencils into a shaded and colored finish.
Many of the features in the first book are carried over into Fantasy Characters such as historical facts about... [click here for more]

The very first issue of Worlds Without Master (formerly known at Words Without Master), an adventure fiction and gaming ezine featuring sword & sorcery short fiction and games from Epidiah Ravachol and many others.
In this issue:
“In Ssef Seat: the Cannibal Queen,” a tale of dark debauchery from D. Vincent Baker and the debut adventure of the scofflaw Jakko... [click here for more]

Issue ten of Worlds Without Master, an adventure fiction and gaming magazine featuring sword & sorcery short fiction and games from Epidiah Ravachol and many others.
In this issue:
"Because I Clasp the Clouds As Mine," a tale of a shifting identity by Osmond Arnesto.
"The Hoard of Yengra," a tale of commerce and justice by Epidiah Ravachol.
Illustrations by... [click here for more]

Tale Two of the Shade Chronicles.. Doljinaar. City of Kings…
A contract has been written soon to be sealed in the blood of kings. A guild of assassins creeps out of the shadows of the capital of mighty Doljinaar, eager to collect on the royal bounty. The time has come for the world’s darkest assassin to make a stand for a banner not his own...
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The greatest battle of all time, secretly fought by time travelers.
It was madness, sheer madness. Soldiers from the future fighting a battle in the past. And did Gettysburg even belong to the 19th century anymore? Had it ever? Never before and perhaps never since would so much of the future hang on so brief a moment in history.
This story is rated T according to the AO3 content... [click here for more]

Collected here are eight masterful ghost stories by the great Edwardian writer Montague Rhodes James. Includes "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook," and more -- all classics of the genre!
"...gifted with an almost diabolic power of calling horror by gentle steps from the midst of prosaic daily life, is the scholarly Montague Rhodes James, Provost of Eton College,... [click here for more]

The follow-up volume to "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" collects seven more of Montague Rhodes James's classic horror stories, including "A School Story," "The Rose Garden," "Casting the Runes," and "Martin's Close."
"...gifted with an almost diabolic power of calling horror by gentle steps from the midst of prosaic daily life, is the scholarly Montague Rhodes James, Provost of Eton College, antiquary... [click here for more]

Formatting comics and image-heavy eBooks can be a confusing and sometimes frustrating task. Every e-reader on the market has a different screen size, meaning that as a creator/publisher, you have to format your comic multiple times.
UPDATE: This ebook includes new processes for preparing your comic for the Nook, using our new, resizable ePub template (available as a free download when you buy this... [click here for more]

Horripilating Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
Professor Rudolph Pearson moved to New York City after the Great War, hoping to put his past behind him. While teaching Medieval Literature at Columbia University, he helped the police unravel a centuries’ old mystery. At the same moment, he uncovered a threat so terrifying that he could not turn away. With the bloody scribbling of an Old English script... [click here for more]

The Unchained don't take anything for granted.
They recognize four Incarnations, based on the types of angels they were. Four Agendas, based on the types of demons they've become. Four Keys to the Cipher, creating a series of Interlocks. They understand all of this, but they strive to remember that what has been is not necessarily what must be. Included herein are eight stories... [click here for more]

Available in EPUB, MOBI and PDF formats.
Travis Coble didn’t kill and eat his family. At least that’s what a jury decided twenty years ago. But like Lizzie Borden, Travis Coble was branded guilty by an angry public and consigned to a life of suspicious whispers and sidelong stares. Now, Professor Dick Myers wants to clear Travis’s name once and for all. An interview with the reclusive... [click here for more]

Almost Heaven…or is it?
The mountain's enduring beauty holds something dark. Something dreadful. Something hungry for our flesh, our brains. Something dead yet not quite dead, driven by magic as old as the coal seams and the hills.
Come see the dark side of the mountains where the undead walk. Appalachia stands against an ever-hungry, never-tiring army created by the region's own mysteries... [click here for more]

Take a short journey to adventure with Iron Kingdoms Excursions! Each volume in this series features three very brief tales about the people, creatures, and machines of Immoren. Explore the Iron Kingdoms and all the alliances, betrayals, and bloodshed of a war-torn continent for only pocket change.
In Iron Kingdoms Excursions: Season Two, Volume Five:
Witness the deadly... [click here for more]

The Iron Kingdoms is a land dominated by mighty warcasters, arcanists who command the terrifying war machines called warjacks. While these epic figures lead armies and shape the futures of their nations, other powerful individuals, no less skilled, forge their own destinies in steam and steel.
Called to Battle, Volume Two is a collection of stories focused on the Iron Kingdoms’ greatest... [click here for more]

In this Beautifully Illustrated book there lived Pretty Red Flower, and she has many friends and adventures eventho she is only a flower, the magically story unfolds, as the flower blooms.
This is a story for your childto grow with. The story also has a deeper meaning on accepting one's self. As that is the only way one can truly find happiness. ... [click here for more]

This FREE Sampler contains the first 3 chapters of JW Schnarr's debut novel Alice & Dorothy, which will be available June 15th/2011. It also contains 3 bonus stories from his collection Things Falling Apart, which is out now in digital format and coming soon to paperback.
Taken from the Back Text of Alice & Dorothy:
Alice Pleasance has just killed a man.
Later,... [click here for more]

"It is only within the last few years that most people have stopped thinking of the West as a new land. I suppose the idea gained ground because our own especial civilisation happens to be new there; but nowadays explorers are digging beneath the surface and bringing up whole chapters of life that rose and fell among these plains and mountains before recorded history began."
—H.P.... [click here for more]

Featuring one of the most acclaimed artists ever, Gustave Dore, Eric Jackson utilizes the full sized plates of Dore’s Bible works to showcase the scenes dealing with the Life and Death of Jesus Christ. In addition to over 35 full page plates, Jackson provides information on The Time Before Christ, The Travels of Christ, information on The Gospels, and The Messiah. This serves as a great summary... [click here for more]

Utilizing the prints of the famed artist, Gustave Dore, this one shot looks at some of the important and crucial scenes of the Apocrypha. The term was first used by St. Jerome to denote material in the Greek version of the biblical books that were not included in the Hebrew Bible of the Old Testament. Sometimes listed in the appendices and other times, totally omitted altogether, the Apocrypha still... [click here for more]

Utilizing the prints of the famed artist, Gustave Dore, this one shot looks at some of the important and crucial scenes of the opening book of the Bible, Genesis. Each full page illustration from Dore is accompanied by the corresponding text paraphrased from the appropriate section of Genesis.... [click here for more]

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Chris's adventure continues as he searches for the ultimate truth-except now, the Government is looking for him as he faces challenges previously unthinkable! All this plus a completely unexpected trip into cyberspace! The fun is just getting started! Brought to you by series creator Jeff. Part 2 of 5 adapting the One Live Beast book one graphic novel. ... [click here for more]

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With the help of his friends, Chris escapes from the city-but what awaits him on the other side? Meet the notorious bounty hunter Dawn-is she Chris's greatest foe, or his staunchest ally? And what happened to Josh??? All this plus-the death of one of Chris's closest friends?!? Find out in the 3rd chapter of One Live Beast!!! ... [click here for more]

Fiction writers can now learn to craft an engaging plot with this new book from the best-selling author and columnist.James Scott Bell offers clear, concise information that will help you create a believable and memorable plot including techniques for crafting strong beginnings, middles and endings, with easy to understand plotting diagrams and charts.
Bell also provides brainstorming techniques... [click here for more]

A man stumbles upon the site of a UFO crash landing, only to find that the children of the nearby town have been horribly mutated and are now roaming the streets hunting for their next meal...
This is the second release in JW Schnarr's Ghosts in the Machine lineup of affordable, pulpy fiction. The Children of the Golden Day will also be appearing in Things Falling Apart, a collection of... [click here for more]

Born in the blazing crucible of war, but sworn to fight for peace, the mysterious obsidian aviator known only by the codename Captain Midnight… flies again! An ace pilot, super secret agent, and astounding scientific genius, the heroic Captain Midnight ruled the radio airwaves and starred in comic books, film serials and a classic television series. Now, when we need him most, he has returned,... [click here for more]

The Vingin are a peaceful species, who are genetically incapable of violence. Humans and Zirans are their protectors. While Humans have shown a frightening appetite for violence, they have never reveled in it the way that their alien counterparts have. For Zirans are a brutal species with a lust for war. Human and Ziran muscle managed to defeat a horde of genocidal aggressors. But the aftermath of... [click here for more]

Ghost Patrol is a tense Science-Fiction thriller about perception, control and the nature of humanity.
The New World Federation is a strictly regimented space-dwelling society where the greatest reward is the absence of punishment. Mind-control and behavioural programming are the underpinnings of the society. Earth, the Fed's hated enemy, is a Commonwealth where simulated humans make up a... [click here for more]

Eco-tourist Jonah Brooks stumbles into a nightmare as he's snared in an East African quarantine zone. Black Nile hemorrhagic virus rampages through the rain forest like a feral beast.
It burns through the human population with a terrifying kill rate; and everyone in the medical group sent to study it lies dead in their camp.
It's not quite the tour package that Jonah signed up for.
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The... [click here for more]

Although the idea that graphic narratives represent an important literary form is still debated in academic circles, in recent years comics scholarship has emerged into wider contexts.
This collection of new essays considers various literary approaches to graphic narrative and sequential art. The authors examine the politics of comic form and narrative, the ways in which graphic narrative and sequential... [click here for more]

This is the latest, all new and updated World of Arator Rule book and Character Class Codex. Included within these pages is the full current rules and all information needed in order to play games within the World of Arator universe. There are major changes within version 1.5 to make the game more fun, streamlined, and less complicated. Changes Include: The "seconds" system has been removed... [click here for more]

The Haunted Archer Exhibit ran for the first time in October of 2007 at the Ashbary Coffeehouse in Willow Springs, IL which is south of the city of Chicago. Willow Springs is a fairly unique town, due to the sheer quantity of haunted locations in its general vicinity. From Harlem Avenue to Route 83 on Archer Avenue, you can find a eight to ten haunted locations. Why are there so many hauntings in... [click here for more]

Benny tries to ignore the payment-overdue messages he keeps getting from "Forget What?," a memory removal company. Benny's a slacker, after all, and couldn't pay them even if he wanted to. Then people start trying to kill him, and his life suddenly depends on finding out what memories he has forgotten. Benny relies on his wits, latent skills, and new friends as he investigates his own past;... [click here for more]

Every century, selected individuals are chosen to fight for a chance to reign as a new King in their world.
Each selected participants are chosen carefully by their partners and are forced to fight against other contestants for the title of King. Emma, a young secluded girl, was no different. Once she had accepted to be a part of the game, her life is thrown into danger as she must kill to survive.... [click here for more]

A mage finds his magic, a leader finds her strength, a hero finds his courage.
A storm is coming. The sky darkens. Wind howls. Thunder rocks the land. The world of Athora is in grave danger.
An unknown enemy rises in the uncharted lands of the east, emerging from the mists of the Fifling sea. Armed with a powerful magical artifact thought lost over a thousand years ago, they’re destroying... [click here for more]

Meet Braenyn, elf, thief, magic-user. He lives a rogue's life with his lover, the shape-shifter, Tarrow. Together they try to survive and better their situation in a mad world filled with warlords, cut-throats, supernatural horrors, trows, gibbelins and ogres. Following his own path, Braenyn undertakes dangerous quests and missions seeking wealth and treasure each time taking bigger risks. When he... [click here for more]

After discovering the secret of his lineage, Braenyn races back to his homelands to confront his mother and his life of lies. Abandoning Tarrow in shame he stops to rest in the human town of Ashburn. While drinking his sorrows away a desperate young girl stumbles into the tavern with a tale too horrible to believe. When no one steps up to help, Braenyn offers his assistance and goes to investigate... [click here for more]

The end is here. The dead walk and the living are on the brink of extinction. Brad and Travis, part of a military search and rescue operation, race against time to evacuate survivors from Seattle, Washington. When the emergency shelter becomes overrun they are re-routed to a secret base, a code Majestic base, in the Canadian Arctic to await rendezvous. Between the isolation, rising tensions,... [click here for more]

Creatures of the living and the dead gather in a volume of over 70,000 words to stalk their prey…humans. 20 stories set the scene for a cast ranging from the Grim Reaper, shambling zombies and restless spirits, to unimaginable monsters that only inhabit the shapeless darkness and the author’s imagination. Join them as they wreak havoc on their unsuspecting victims and... [click here for more]

Around ten years ago, Michael Cage ceased to be undead after a long, bloody century. He and every other Vampire were miraculously cured of their condition at the turn of the new millennium and have spent the last decade re-acclimating to life among the rest of us. But now things are falling apart, and Michael’s ideal human life my be slipping away from him. His job is to help others like him... [click here for more]